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Guatemalan indigenous women have also faced extensive violence.Throughout over three decades of conflict, Maya women and girls have continued to be targeted. [citation needed] The Commission for Historical Clarification found that 88% of women affected by state-sponsored rape and sexual violence against women were indigenous.
The National Indigenous Women's Resource Center (NIWRC) is a nonprofit organization that provides health resources to Native American women and also advocates for women's health, housing, and domestic violence support. [1] [2] [3] The organization was founded and is led by Native American women. [4]
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women [a] are instances of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, [1] [2] notably those in the First Nations in Canada and Native American communities, [3] [4] [5] but also amongst other Indigenous peoples such as in Australia and New Zealand, [2] and the grassroots movement to raise awareness of MMIW through organizing marches ...
In 2021, more than 16,500 likely victims of human trafficking were identified by the National Human Trafficking Hotline, according to the Polaris Project, a national human trafficking awareness ...
Indigenous scholars agree that combatting the continued colonial sexual violence must be done collectively as a community and encompass traditional Indigenous healing practices. There are continued challenges for Indigenous people due to racism and the resistance from society to accept two-spirit and queer people. [ 12 ]
DeliverFund, a nonprofit intelligence organization that leverages cutting-edge technology in the fight against human trafficking in the US. Devatop Centre for Africa Development, a nonprofit organization in Nigeria with focus on combating human trafficking, gender-based violence, and child abuse; and providing educational support to vulnerable ...
More than 260 people, most of them women and children, were reported victims of human trafficking in North Carolina at the end of 2020. The actual number of victims and survivors in the state ...
Sexual exploitation remains a serious issue, with 43% of sex trafficking cases involving Native Hawaiian girls trafficked in Waikīkī, O‘ahu, a report said.